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Portrait of a Girl

Willie Bester

born 1956

Artwork Details

Artist          Willie Bester 
Title            Portrait of a Girl
Year            2001
Medium      Mixed Media (38.5 x 28.5 x 4 cm)

About the Artist

Willie Bester (born 1956) is a South African painter, sculptor and assemblage artist born in Montagu in the Western Cape. Largely self-taught, he attended the Community Arts Project in Cape Town in 1986 and developed a distinctive practice using found and recycled materials. He lives and works in Kuils River, Cape Town. His awards and honours include the Cape Triennial Merit Prize in 1991, the Prix de l’Aigle in Nice in 1992, the Order of the Disa in 2004, the Johnnie Walker Artist Award in 2009, and an honorary doctorate from the University of KwaZulu-Natal in 2019.

About this Artwork

Portrait of a Girl presents a young girl playing on the ground. This is an intimate moment where Bester captures the child’s innocence with a somewhat still landscape as the backdrop with recycled materials surrounding the image as a frame, which is a prominent feature of his work.